For this blog series, we need to read a novel which related to our class theme “Supernatural”. After that, we need to identify approaches used in the novel to tell the story. For this assignment, I decided to choose “A Wrinkle in Time” written by Madeleine L’engle. This book is the first book in Madeleine L’engle’s classic Time Quintet and was published in 1962. This novel with the other four novels talks about the Murry and O'Keefe families. It is a young adult and scientific fiction that starts with the hero in this novel, Meg Murry’s father disappearance. She is told that his father’s mysterious disappearance is related to his work on exploring a scientific concept, tesseract that known as a fifth-dimensional phenomenon. She and her extraordinary brother, Charles Wallace then meet with three eccentric women, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. They claim that they can help them to find their father. They then start the quest to explore into the unknown to save their father. Along with them in the journey including Meg’s friend, Calvin O'Keefe who also has the extraordinary ability as Charles Wallace, which is both of them can read certain people’s thoughts and feelings. In the quest to save her father, they travel to space-time continuum such as planet Uriel, and Camazotz. They also meet many strange, joyful beings that their minds are controlled by an evil being who appears as a large dark cloud called The Black Thing. The Black Thing is a major antagonist in this novel. During the journey, they are facing many dangerous attack and Mrs. Whatsit sacrifice herself to try to destroy The Black Thing. Meg’s brother, Charles Wallace is also controlled by a man with red eyes with telepathic abilities who can cast a hypnotic spell over people’s minds. At the end of the story, she succeeds to rescue her father from The Black Thing and free Charles Wallace from the man with the red eyes. They return to World and live in ordinary life.
For this novel, I will use the Monomyth (Campbell) approach to explain the story. This is because the theme of this novel is very similar with the hero’s quest which is fight of good against evil. It contains many elements as defined by Joseph Campbell in the Monomyth such as the call to adventure, supernatural aid, the road of trials etc.
Works Cited:
A Wrinkle in Time. Wikipedia. Web. May 10, 2010.
Taeeun Yoo. A Wrinkle in Time. 2007. Google Image. Web. May 10, 2010.
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